Hi! On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 08:28:18AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I tried to just touch /etc/login.defs, which made shadowconfig happy,
I see that I need to check with zero length login.defs too... > > but adduser still failed for some reason I do not remember now, there > > seems to be more involved. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# mv login.defs login.defs.save I did the same, but instead of adduser: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# LC_ALL=C adduser krabs tried just bare useradd. As you can see, adduser can definitely provide more info, at least it complains to stdin/stderr: > adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 1004 krabs' returned error code 1. Aborting. And it's not the case with useradd which fails silently (only exitcode indicates failure). > Seems that adding the usergroup fails when login.defs, meaning that > groupadd needs login.defs useradd/userdel/groupadd/groupdel -- it's more easy to just grep source code for getdef_(u?num|str) This means that we can't distribute "passwd" without /etc/login.defs, latter being provided by "login" pkg. That's why I propose to split shadow in 3 pieces instead of 2 (as it currently is), just to move /etc/login.defs out in its separate package (let's call it "shadow-common") and have "passwd" depend on it. -- WBR, xrgtn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
